I've gone through 4 OSDisc installs. Purchased with Mint 18 32 bit and 64 bit. (on separate sticks)
They seem to work once and then crash with kernel panic.
1. I wiped the 32 bit the second time around and installed MX-15 and it's fine now. Im not done yet as I need to format the persistent portion. This is a 8GB partition ext4.
2. On the second 64 bit I got to looking at the way they were formatted. The 8GB partition with the OS and bootloader was formatted FAT32. Doesn't this have a 4GB maximum? So....I used convert on W7 to convert sdb1 to NTFS. Worked fine as far as the conversion went but kernel panic is still present.
3. The second partition the "persistent" portion is the remainder of the stick and formatted ext4. My home directory and all are present and accessible.
Last lines read:
Code: Select all
[color=#FF0000]Kernel Offset-disabled
end kernel panic not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)[/color]
The OSDisc USB sticks are fine....nice and solid aluminum. OSDisc replaced two sticks no questions asked. Good company.So....has anyone had experience with UUI (Universal USB Installer)? I'm suspicious of it.
Thanks,
Jeff